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ReverendDeuce

(1,643 posts) Wed Oct 8, 2014, 06:30 AM Oct 2014

Livetweeting of bombing in Syria! This guy is brave!

He's been posting updates this morning and last night. Apparently ISIS is trying to shoot down B-1 bombers with machine guns.

This guy is brave, he's hiding in a pepper field outside of Kobane posting photos and updating as events unfold.

https://twitter.com/cahitstorm

Stay safe, Cahit! Stay safe!

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Livetweeting of bombing in Syria! This guy is brave! (Original Post) ReverendDeuce Oct 2014 OP
HUGE explosion in Kobane just seconds ago... massive dust cloud... MOAB use? ReverendDeuce Oct 2014 #1
that IS huge... hit an ammo dump? ProdigalJunkMail Oct 2014 #2
According to locals... ReverendDeuce Oct 2014 #3
kaboom... n/t ProdigalJunkMail Oct 2014 #4
"This explosion was the biggest i have see since the beginning of batlle." ReverendDeuce Oct 2014 #5
They are calling this the Daesh Holocaust... photo of man carrying his 92 year old grandmother... ReverendDeuce Oct 2014 #6
YPG reports "We will defend #Kobane with all our strength" ReverendDeuce Oct 2014 #7
Unconfirmed, but compelling... ReverendDeuce Oct 2014 #8
Reuters: "U.S.-led air strikes on Wednesday pushed Islamic State fighters back..." ReverendDeuce Oct 2014 #9
If they are outside the city CJCRANE Oct 2014 #11
Pro-ISIS mob attacks Kurdish protesters with machetes... in Germany! ReverendDeuce Oct 2014 #10
How (or why) have western countries CJCRANE Oct 2014 #12

ReverendDeuce

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3. According to locals...
Reply to ProdigalJunkMail (Reply #2)
Wed Oct 8, 2014, 06:38 AM
Oct 2014

According to locals, they heard a plane overhead and seconds later a huge fireball in the ISIS-occupied part of the city.

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ReverendDeuce

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5. "This explosion was the biggest i have see since the beginning of batlle."
Reply to ReverendDeuce (Original post)
Wed Oct 8, 2014, 06:40 AM
Oct 2014

"'ISIS has 1000s fighters attacking city. Many nationalities. Chechens, Uzbecks. We hear Russian on their walkie talkies'"

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ReverendDeuce

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6. They are calling this the Daesh Holocaust... photo of man carrying his 92 year old grandmother...
Reply to ReverendDeuce (Original post)
Wed Oct 8, 2014, 06:43 AM
Oct 2014

Man carrying his grandmother to safety, away from the Daesh...

https://twitter.com/baghdadinvest/status/519782406954307586

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ReverendDeuce

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8. Unconfirmed, but compelling...
Reply to ReverendDeuce (Original post)
Wed Oct 8, 2014, 06:52 AM
Oct 2014

Men and women of the YPG/YPJ fighting ISIS in Kobane... INTENSE but NOT graphic:


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CJCRANE

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11. If they are outside the city
Reply to ReverendDeuce (Reply #9)
Wed Oct 8, 2014, 07:04 AM
Oct 2014

it should be easier to get at them.

They shouldn't be allowed any safe haven in open ground IMO.

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CJCRANE

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12. How (or why) have western countries
Reply to ReverendDeuce (Reply #10)
Wed Oct 8, 2014, 07:07 AM
Oct 2014

allowed ISIS support to build up given all the surveillance and anti-terror laws (is what I'm wondering)?

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